Mrs. McGrath’s 3rd Grade           

It’s hard to believe the school year is half over!!  The 3^rd graders have settled in nicely and I’ve enjoyed getting to know each of them.  

READING 

 We continue to work in our regular Reading series.  We will soon finish the first half of the series.  In a few weeks, we will be reading our first novel called The Chocolate Touch. 

GRAMMAR/ SPELLING     

In Grammar we have spent the last few weeks learning about verb tenses and reviewing correct sentence punctuation.  The children continue to do well on their Spelling tests and enjoy preparing for them with games such as Sparkle and Hang Man.

MATH 

We have begun working on multiplication facts.  I have asked the class to memorize the 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, and 5’s facts.  Each child has made a set of flash cards to study these facts.  We will continue to review addition and subtraction facts as well.

SCIENCE 

We are learning about living things, the characteristics of them and how they are alike and different.

SOCIAL STUDIES    

We are talking about our government and the branches that it is made up of.  In the next month, we will be starting to work on our state floats. The children are looking forward to this project. The work on the floats will be done at home.  The grand finale will be the State Float Parade!

*Please make sure to sign the assignment book each night as well as the behavior calendar.